Students are responsible for reading three (3) books total. Each grade level has one (1) required book and then the students may choose two (2) from the other choices. The required book is marked with an asterisk (*).
All students are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the books. Starting May 1st, books may also be ordered through the MBS Direct online book ordering system.
In August, students will write an essay on the required book and will take AR tests on the other two books.
Students may take AR tests over the summer on Wednesdays when the Moncrief Library is open. This allows students to test as they finish the books. Students may also elect to wait until the start of school to take AR tests on their summer reading books.
REQUIRED:
* Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
978-0545165778 Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook
[FICTION - VISITING AUTHOR] A girl, having travelled with her mother to an animal sanctuary for bonobos in the Congo, struggles to survive with the animals after revolution breaks out and she and the chimpanzees are forced to flee into the jungle.
CHOOSE 2:
Between Shades of Grayby Ruth Sepetys
978-0142420591 Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook / Audio
[FICTION] In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Deadlyby Julie Chibbaro
978-0689857386 Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook
[FICTION] Sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job in the early 1900s as assistant to the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, who is trying to discover how a seemingly healthy woman can be spreading typhoid fever.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [unabridged] by Robert Louis Stevenson
978-0486266886 Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook / Audio
[CLASSIC - FICTION] The classic tale in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experimentby James Patterson
978-0316067959 Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook / Audio
[SCIFI/FANTASY]
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen
978-0486284736 Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook
[CLASSIC - FICTION] In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Summer Reading For Students Entering 8th Grade
2015-2016
REQUIRED:
* Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
978-0545165778
Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook
[FICTION - VISITING AUTHOR]
A girl, having travelled with her mother to an animal sanctuary for bonobos in the Congo, struggles to survive with the animals after revolution breaks out and she and the chimpanzees are forced to flee into the jungle.
CHOOSE 2:
978-0142420591
Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook / Audio
[FICTION]
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
978-0689857386
Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook
[FICTION]
Sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job in the early 1900s as assistant to the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, who is trying to discover how a seemingly healthy woman can be spreading typhoid fever.
978-0486266886
Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook / Audio
[CLASSIC - FICTION]
The classic tale in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.
978-0316067959
Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook / Audio
[SCIFI/FANTASY]
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
978-0486284736
Available in FWCD Library: Print / eBook
[CLASSIC - FICTION]
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.